Australian Privacy Act and Privacy Principles

In Australia, data privacy and protection are primarily regulated by the federal Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles.

We put together this list of articles to help you follow these regulations when sending within or to Australia.

Overview

• Understanding the Privacy Act and how we’re keeping data safe
• How the Dotdigital platform helps with Privacy Act compliance
• What we’re doing as an organisation to help customers comply with the Privacy Act

Individual Rights

• Process a request to delete a contact's data
• Process a request to access personal information

Organisational Measures

• Secure your account with two-factor authentication
• Cookies that might be created on contacts' devices

Capture and manage consent

• Create a customised unsubscribe form
• Create a signup form
• Deleting selected address books and all contained contacts
• Display the Unsubscribe or Preferences page in your contact's language
• Delete and empty address books
• Explaining contact opt-in types
• Export an address book
• Record consent for your contacts
• Set up a preference centre
• Unsubscribe a contacts
• Using verified double opt-in
• Using verified double opt-in on existing contacts

Compliance with the Spam Act

• Changes to the Spam Act in Australia